Garden Grove Municipal Code Ch. 1.01 Code Adoption

A. Adoption. The Garden Grove Municipal Code, Volume I, Titles 1-18 excluding Title 9, as compiled from the ordinances of the City of Garden Grove, California, and edited and published by the City of Garden Grove, is hereby adopted as Volume I of the official Code of the City of Garden Grove, California.

B. Title—citation—reference. This Code shall be known as the "Garden Grove Municipal Code, Volume I" in any prosecution for the violation of any provision thereof or in any proceeding at law or equity. It shall also be sufficient to designate any ordinance adding to, amending, correcting, or repealing all or any part or portion thereof as an addition to, amendment to, correction of, or repeal of the Garden Grove Municipal Code, Volume I. Further reference may be made to the titles, chapters, sections, and subsections of the Garden Grove Municipal Code, Volume I and such reference shall apply to that numbered title, chapter, section, or subsection as it appears in that Code, Volume I.

C. Reference applies to amendments. Whenever a reference is made to this Code as the "Garden Grove Municipal Code, Volume I" or to any portion thereof, or to any ordinances of the City of Garden Grove, California, that reference shall apply to all amendments, corrections, and additions heretofore, now, or hereafter made.

D. Codification Authority. This Code, Volume I, consists of regulatory and penal ordinances and certain of the administrative ordinances codified pursuant to Sections 50022.1-50022.8 and 50022.10 of the California Government Code.

E. Title, chapter, and section headings. Title, chapter, and section headings contained herein shall not be deemed to govern, limit, modify, or in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of the provisions of any title, chapter, or section hereof.

F. Reference to specific ordinances. The provisions of this Code, Volume I, shall not in any manner affect deposits or other matters of record that refer to, or are otherwise connected with ordinances that are therein specifically designated by number or otherwise and that are included within this Code, Volume I, but such reference shall be construed to apply to the corresponding provisions contained within this Code, Volume I.

G. Effect of code on past actions and obligations. Neither the adoption of this Code, Volume I, nor the repeal or amendment hereby of any ordinance or any part of any ordinance of the City shall in any manner affect the prosecution for violations of ordinances, which violations were committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as a waiver of any license, fee, or penalty at said effective date due and unpaid under such ordinances, nor be construed as affecting any of the provisions of such ordinances relating to the collection of any such license, fee, or penalty, or the penal provisions applicable to any violation thereof, nor to affect the validity of any bond or cash deposit in lieu thereof required to be posted, filed, or deposited pursuant to any ordinance and all rights and obligations thereunder appertaining shall continue in full force and effect.

H. Effective date of code. The Garden Grove Municipal Code, Volume I, Titles 1-18 excluding Title 9, shall become effective on the date that the ordinance codified in this chapter becomes effective.

I. Severability. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part, or portion of this Code, Volume I, is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Code. The Garden Grove City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this Code, Volume I, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, parts, or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional.

J. Effective date of ordinance. This ordinance shall take effect 30 days after adoption and shall within 15 days of adoption be published with the names of the Councilmembers voting for and against the same in a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published, and circulated in the City of Garden Grove.

(1237 §§ 1—10, 1971; 2800 § 1, 2011)

Copies of this Code shall be filed for use and examination by the public in the office of the City Clerk, and copies thereof shall be distributed as determined by the City Clerk.

(Prior code § 1104; 2800 § 1, 2011)

Upon the adoption of any amendment or addition to this Code, or upon the repeal of any of its provisions, the City Clerk shall certify thereto. Duly certified copies of every ordinance making changes in this Code shall be filed in the office of the City Clerk in books for such purpose, duly indexed for ready reference.

(Prior code § 1105; 2800 § 1, 2011)

A. The City Clerk shall prepare printed copies of the changes referred to in Section 1.01.100 in the Code. Every section of the Code so changed shall have printed thereon a notation of the ordinance number pursuant to which such change is adopted.

B. At least once yearly, the City Clerk shall cause the pages of said Code in which changes have been made, to be reprinted, including the notation as to the ordinance number pursuant to which such change is adopted, in order that at least once yearly the copies of such Code prepared for the use and convenience of the officers and employees of the City and the general public may be brought up to date.

(Prior code § 1106; 2800 § 1, 2011)